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purpose of carrying Into effect na from January 1, 1980, the recom mendations so modified.”
and I trust that Hon. Members: will feel that the motion is one to Agenda paper a motion by my $977,400 which is the estimated cost which they can give their support. Hon. friend, Dr. Kotewall who is of continuing the exchange com- The Government will regard it as a evidently prepared to offer a compensation scheme down to 1/8d. It matter of sincere regret should 'It promise with a view to reducing will be remembered that in voting not receive the unanimous support the cost to the Colony. But, Sir, this sum the Finance Committee of the Council in what it regards as Dr. Kotewall's scheme is in the stipulated that the lacreased com- an essential act of justice to its opinion of the Government fair pensation should not be paid beyond employees, neither to the sterling-salaried nor June 30 without further reference Ito the dollar-salaried officers, to the Committee and it may there
Dollar Equivalent.
fore be held to have voted only $188,700. It has been thought bat- ter to include the sum already voted in the total vote for the new schémo
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FURTHER INQUIRY URGED.
In opposing the motion, the Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes sald:-
Being the Benior European Unofficial Member present to-day, it falls to me to present to Your Excellency and this Council the also of the members of the Hong considered views of ourselves, and
Kong General Chamber of Com- labour in this Colony, on the merce, and large employers of
Salaries Commission Report.
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Duty To The Colony. One must not be blind to the fact that any increase has to be paid for, that any advantages given must reflect on outside em- ployment, and that the general conditions of trade, past, present and future, call for the most care- ful investigation.
The former it leaves in the posi- tion I have described above of re- ceiving leas than the dollar equivalent of their salaries; but Hon. Members will of course to the latter it offers understand that there will be a say only half of what the Commising on the double vote of the amount they deserved as already voted for the increased ex- sioners thought long ago as last August. Now, Sir, change compensation allowance. the Government has a high opinion
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To meet this additional recurrent and it la not prepared to deny to charge and to meet the increased PUBLIC AUCTION.
them at the time when their needs, cost of sterling commitments owing are greatest one half of the Increase to the drop of the dollar the Govern first of all to refer to a letter sent Will you kindly allow me, Sir. ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS to which the Commisaloners con-
ment considers it necessary to into the Hon. Colonial Secretary by of the Sale by Public Auctionsidered them to be entitled last year.
crease the revenue of the Colony. the Hon. Mr. Shenton on May 14
be heard, but the representation Written statements were receiv of any other interests in the on MONDAY, the Apply to be held
1 But, Sir, the Government is not. The financial position is very fully expressing the unanimous requested from all, and were found to be Colony, likely to be effected, and as 23rd day of June, 1930, at unmindful of the cost of the whole set out in Sir Cecil Clementi's of Unofficial Members that he unanimous In refecting the Com- regarda passions, the general con- 18 p... at the Offices of the scheme and of the new factors in- despatch published in Sessional should propose two motions in con- missioners Report, the general ditions existing, and likely to exist,
Department, by
troduced by the drop in the dottar, Paper No. 8 of 1930 and I need not nection with the question now be concensus of opinion being that Order of His Excellency the Gov and it has after mature considera- detain this Council by repeating the fore us. Mr. Shenton wrote again the present terms of Government cipient concerned is likely to re-
In those countries where the re ernor, of ont Lot of Crown tion come to the conclusion that it details which can be moro conven on the 2nd of this raonth to ask employment are more advantageous tire to. TÒ LET~~OTE Comfortable Room
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can reduce the cost of the scheme tently studied in the Sessional Your Excellency to Star Ferry, Kowloon. Apply Box Kok Tsui, in the Colony of without undue hardship to the ser- Paper.
accept that than similar employment outside. The Government has given letter as a formal notice of motion, It must not be assumed by this No. 658, c/o "Chinn Mall."
Hong Kong, for a term of 75
vice by eliminating for the present much earnest consideration to the and that Unofficial Members deair-general statement that there are years, with the option of renewal the two charges referred to in my sources from which this additional ed that they be treated as substan- TO LET No. 3 & 4. Dragon Terrace, at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the motion, viz, the High Cost of Livrevenue should be obtained and has tive motions, at the same time, in Causeway Bay, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Surveyor of His Majesty the Kinging allowance of 15 per cent. and taken due notice of the reception forming Government that owing to floors, Each flut has three bed for one further term of 75 years 71% per cent for Sterling salaried accorded to the proposals set out in his impending departure for home rooms, dining room, servants' quar- PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. ters, kitchen, bath room, and water
officers and the rent allowance for Sir Cecil Clementi's despatch. I am these motions would be proposed closets. Suitable for *Europeans.
dollar salaried officers of less than 10 authorised to say that it has been by me. Apply Clark & 10, 10, Des Voeux
yeurs' service. As regards the for- decided to leave in abeyance the Road C.
mer the salaries scheme took as its proposal to raise the Assessment basis for calculation a dollar at 2/- Tax though I must WEYD Hon and in order to give an officer Members that it may still be neces- 33roughly the saine salary in dollars aary to impose some increase later as he was then receiving, it increas-on in order to balance the Budget ed his substantive salary by 15 per for 1931 unless the Retrenchment Excellency will accept it in this cent. and added a discretionary High Committee, which my Hon. friend, form. The amendment therofore Cost of Living Allowance of not Mr. Owen Hughes will ask for later is more than 15 per cent. for married in the day and which the Govern- "That in view of the far reach or 71⁄2 per cent, for unmarried off-ment will readily grant, Is able to ing effect of the Commissioners' cers. It appears to the Government offert" such reforms that further
Report on employment general that as the cost of living in Hong taxation can be avoided. The Gov Kong rises proportionately more ernment as Hon. Members are al- slowly than the dollar drops there ready aware has Increased the tax comes a point at which the High
on tobacco and hopes to derive there- Cost of Living allowance may from $700,000 in a full year and scarcely be justified and the actual $300,000 during the rest of 1830. dollar equivalent of the sterling The postal rates, at present far be
low those current elsewhere will be salary becomes a reasonable emolu
raised from July 1 whereby the Government hopes to obtain $100, 000 during 1930 and $229,000 in a full year."
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MONDAY, the High Cost of Living allowance. But this cannot be regarded as a per- June, of
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sioners realised that with an un- Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov. stable exchange there must be a Camb. Teachers' Diploma). ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land variable factor in the system adopted for the conversion of sterling Tung Choi Street. Mong (National Frode Higher Kok Tsui, in
salaries into dollars and while fix. the Colony Certificate).
Hong Kong, for a term of 75 lng new substantive salaries it left years, with the option of renewal a variable factor in the High Cost at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the of Living allowance. The point at Surveyor of His Majesty the King, which this allowance should again for one further term of 75 years. become payable, and the sliding scale which ought to be allopted when it PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
does become payable, are matters which the Government is leaving for further consideration. Suffice it to say that for the present the Government is satisfied that it need not be paid and the resultant saving to the exchequer is estimated at 8565,800. The allowance will not be introduced without further refer sale plan. 1,100 26ence to this Council.
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The first reading of an Ordinance to introduce a Petrol Tax will be
taken this afternoon from which the Government hopes to derive a a full net revenus of $275,000 in year and $115,000 during the rest of 1930.
not considered to be cases where revision is necessary-there are and probably many, but they must be dealt with as individual cases. The views expressed were col- lated In a Report which was pass As however the Government have ed to the Committee of the Cham- exercised its prerogative and have ber, who after consideration adopt adopted the present course of aced it as the considered view of the tion, it necessitates the first of the Chamber, and the same WOR in two motions referred to being put January last sent to the Govern- as an amendment, and trust Your ment.
It should also be stated that the Commission's Report had previous. ly been submitted to a Board ap- pointed to consider labour condi- tions, who by a majority arrived at the same conclusion as the Hong ly, and the community as a Kong General Chamber of Com- whole, and the large expenditure merce.
of money involved, Els Excel- That, Sir, is a brief history of lency the President of this Coun- the progress of the Commissioners' cil be invited to appoint a Com Report, through the bands of the mittee consisting of Government sub-committee, the large employers Nominees, Representatives of of labour and members of the employers and employees and Hong Kong General Chamber of others having a broad knowledge Commerce. of the conditions of employment in the Colony, to investigate the Report of the Commissioners and make a report thereon for further consideration."
Not Consulted.
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Before proceeding further, I should like to pay a tribute to the great work of the Commissioners
who havé given so much of their time to the study of this difficult matter they have devoted many weeks to this important subject. The public as a whole, and the Government in particular, must be. (and without doubt are) deeply in- debted to the members of the Com- mission for their. great service, and for the range of their de liberations, which has given us a comprehensive frame upon which to work, and will assist us very materially in understanding the important problems we are called upon to 'solve.
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The terms of reference were
(1)' The adequacy of the present.
Government Salary Scales.
(2) The method of converaton of": such salaries, when in the. Colony, and on leave."
(3) The principles of acting pay, charge allowances, and. overtime.
(4) Housing, and rent allow-
ance.
In reviewing this matter, we owe a duty to the Colony as a whole, Working Behind The Scene. and we should be failing in that Second only to the labour under duty if we attempted to represent taken by members of the Salaries any Individual interest, or in any Commission themselves, in the way allowed one section of the- taking of evidence, in the con- community to influence us more alderation, and the final presenta than another. Whilst we wish to As Your Excellency is doubtless tion of the Report itself, is the do justice to the Government ser- aware, the Committee of the Hong vast amount of work undertaken | vice, we must be careful that our Kong General Chamber of Com- by Mr. Shenton and those associat-recommendations do not merce, very shortly after the Re ed with him in preparing and pre- undue injury to the public, or cast An Ordinance to introduce an port of the Salaries Commission senting the Report, with the too great a strain on the revenues Amusement Tax will be brought for was received, appointed a special various schedules I have referred of this Colony.
The Commissioners were ward later in the year from which Sub-committee under the Chair- to, before the Committee of the the Government hopes to derive manship of the Hon. Mr. Shenton Chamber and employers, but it has pointed on October 19, 1923, and $300,000 per annum.
to consider the Report and obtain earned for them the gratitude of the report in question was deliver- These taxes should in a full year the views of the principal em all, and especially of those who ed some time in the autumn of last produce $1,500,000 from which Mill-ployers of this Colony, the others will be adversely affected should year, I cannot give the exact date tary contribution of 20 per cent. or forming this Sub-committee, being the recommendations of the Com- as the report is not dated. $300,000 falls to be deducted leaving Mr. M. T. Johnson, then in charge mission be adopted. Many meet a net additional revenue of $1,200,- of Messrs. Mackinnon Mackenzie ings have been held by Unofficial 000. Admittedly this increase of & Co., and Mr. A. Ritchie of Members, Including one meeting revenue will not be fully available Mesare. Lowe, Bingham & Mate with representatives of the Govern to meet additional expenditure for thews, with Mr. M. F. Key as ment, members of the Salaries
Secretary.
Commission, and with the Commit- the current year but our revenue bas What It Will Cest.
been coming in well during the first-
It was realised that it would be tee of the Chamber of Commerce, At the same time the Government half of the year and we are already quite impossible to merely put the culminating in a speech by the is prepared to ask for some sacrifice more than $750,000 above our estim. Report as it stood before the em- Hon. Mr. Shenton which, but for ployera so they, as far as they his departure on a well-earned from the dollar-salaried officers. ates for the proportionate period were able to, took the Report to holiday, would be delivered by him Hitherto dollar-salaried officers of Expenditure is being carefully less than ten years' service have not watched and if all goes well we may pieces, and recast it into schedules, to Your Excellency and this Coun
showing in separate columns the cil to-day.
Leave Pay And Pensions," been entitled to rent allowance. The yet find ourselves able to keep
present position, the recommenda. With the knowledge and consent,
I want you to note here, that al- Commissionera recommended the within our revenus and should this tions of the Commissioners and the of all the Unofficial Members, a though the terms of reference grant of this concession regardless prove impossible we are in a strong percentages of increase.
copy of the speech and schedules specifically refer to leave pay, no of length of service. The Govern-position as regards our liquid re-
The Report, the schedules la was sent to the Hon. Colonial meation is made of pensions, and ment considers that the old rule herves and should be able without
question and a covering letter Secretary and being thus sub I venture to suggest that pensions might for the présent remain un-
difficulty to meet any anticipated were then placed before the fol mitted, it would in my opinion be are a matter which require separ changed without undue hardship and deficit on the year's working.
lowing concerns, for the purpose unfair that such an important ate consideration, and are the saving obtained by this modifica
of obtaining their views:- document, the result of many necessarily bound, úp. with the THE TRANSFER BOOKS. of tion of the scheme is estimated at It is however important that in Mesura. Jardine, Matheson & Co. weeks labour and careful thought, amount of salary granted when 'on a normal year recurrent expenditure Ltd.; The Indo-China Steam should be left unrecorded. I there active service, but are more con- from SUNDAY, 22nd June, to ded that with these modifications the should be met from recurrent ra Navigation Co., Ltd.; The Hong fore crave Your Excellency's par cerned with the general circum- TUESDAY, 24th June, 1930, in- scheme is not an undue burden on venue, and it is for this reason that Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown mission and the indulgence of Hon.
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the Colony even under present con- I have ventured to sound a note of Co., Ltd.; The Hong Kong Tram Members to quote freely from that ditions, and sees no justification for warning as to the possible necessity way Co, Ltd.; The Asiatic Petro speech, particularly as I am in full further postponement of the for raising further revenue by means leum Co., Ltd.; The Hong Kong & agreement with it. I will aftør- scheme.
of the Assessment Rates next year. Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd.; Mesara warda submit my own views leav I come now, Sir, to the cost of I regret, Sir, that my femarks Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co., Ltd;ing the seconder of this amend the scheme, and this of course varies should have been extended to this The P. & O. Steamship Co., Ltd::ment the Hon. Mr. Mackie, and with the rate of the dollar. On the inordinate length, but the subject The E. & A. Lines; The Hong Kong other Unofficial colleagues to make advice of my Hon. friend the is one of vital importance to the Electric Co., Ltd.; Messrs. Butter their own observations in support. | Colonial Treasurer we have taken good government of this Colony and fleld & Swire; The Taikoo Dock Report Quoted. I quote the Report now 1/6d as the average rate for the one which has aroused great public yard, and The Talkoo Sugar Re
"I have before me a difficult and year 1930 and we can only hope interest. This must be my excuse finery Co., Ltd.
It might here be stated that the arduous task-one which I think that we shall not be proved overfor delaying the Counell so long.
Sub-Committee were considerably no one will approach without a sanguine. No-one can guarantee I now move generat
"That this Council approves Burprised to find that none of the feeling of diffidence having regard the recommendation of the executives of the above concerns to the magnitude of the subject, Salaries Commission published in had been consulted by the Com and the interests involved. One
missioners,
has only to scan the pages of the Bessional Paper No. 7. of 1929 as
Salaries Report to realise that it modified by the Governor's
covers almost every class of em -Despatch No. 87, of January 22,
ployment in the Colony, To be 1930, and approved by the Secre
able to express an authoritative tary of State for the Colonies in
opinion on the emoluments, which his telegram of March 25, 1980
should be received by every form published in Bessional Paper No
of service in Hong Kong, laa 8 of 1980, and further modified
knowledge which I personally do by the exclusion of the High Cost
not possess, and I very much doubt
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LAMMERT BROS. the future course of the dollar and 1. sface our calculations even were made the dollar has dropped still further. Should it-remain below 1/6d there will necessarily be an increase in the cost of the scheme as calculated in dollars but the increase will be fully justified. Taking an average rate of 1/6d over the whole year. and taking the scheme as modified by the two alterations already referred to and by the recommendations em bodied in Sir Cecil Clement's den patch of January 22, 1930, and its enclosure, the additional coat over and above the amount voted in the estidtates for 1980 is estimated after careful revision of the details as $1,628,917,798,90E
The additional cost of the full scheme with the dollar af 1/6d kis estimated $2,542,993. from this the sums of $248,000, referred to as sers at the net Increase:
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WEDNESDAY, June 25, 1930, commencing at 11 f.m.
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Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
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in paragraph 12 of the Commis signers report and the rent allowance for dollar salaried off- corm of less than ten years" - 801- 180 vico referred to in par
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